True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #17 – Red Ale

These all grain kits are all designed with one thing in mind, making great tasting beer at affordable prices. We’ve built and created this range to offer our first “core” range of all grain kits that represent either great ingredients, methods or beer styles which we adore.

All of them are 23 litre batches and come in at sensible strengths for the mid week beers or sessions at the weekend! Read our full blog post on this range here!

An Irish Style Red Ale which has a balanced character between malt, caramel and toffee notes and slight floral hop presence. Bitterness is balanced to allow for the malt character to shine through. A deep red/amber colour that if care is taken to clear the finished beer with appropriate finings, will be pin bright and alluring to drink.

Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Roasted Barley
Simpsons Malt – Crystal Dark
Simpsons Malt – Crystal Light
Simpsons Malt – Best Pale Ale Malt
Goldings (East Kent Goldings) T90 Pellets (50 grams)
WHC Dried Yeast -LAX – 11g Packet (1 pack)

Method

Beer Style (main): Irish Ales
Beer Style (sub): Irish-Style Red Ale
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.045
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV %: 4.4
IBU: 24
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 68
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

20g East Kent Goldings @ 60min
15g East Kent Goldings @ 30min
15g East Kent Goldings @ 5min

Yeast: WHC LAX – 1 Packet
Fermentation temperature/steps: 19c 7-10 days, until fermentation is completed.

Comments:

Allow for a Diacetyl rest at the end of fermentation to avoid buttery, sweet flavours from remaining in the beer. We suggest a slight temperature ramp to 20c after fomentation is complete and hold for 2-4 days.